Your observation that there is much happening in classrooms with generative AI and much less to help us develop understanding seems right to me. My current framework for how this gets better is sharing knowledge with in disciplines, which I think is happening and your research insights is one window I have into this. The second article is a good example, and not surprising that is electrical engineering given I think their comfort and knowledge of the tools gave them a head start. But this is happening in other disciplines as well. I spoke to colleagues in Germanic Languages and Critical Writing about work their doing in the classroom this term. I expect it to be shared in meetings on campus, but next year at discipline-based conferences and journal.
Love the content and format, particularly your commentaries. Do you have an AI assistant helping with the summaries? If so, it seems like a really useful way to break down academic arguments and analyses.
Your observation that there is much happening in classrooms with generative AI and much less to help us develop understanding seems right to me. My current framework for how this gets better is sharing knowledge with in disciplines, which I think is happening and your research insights is one window I have into this. The second article is a good example, and not surprising that is electrical engineering given I think their comfort and knowledge of the tools gave them a head start. But this is happening in other disciplines as well. I spoke to colleagues in Germanic Languages and Critical Writing about work their doing in the classroom this term. I expect it to be shared in meetings on campus, but next year at discipline-based conferences and journal.
Love the content and format, particularly your commentaries. Do you have an AI assistant helping with the summaries? If so, it seems like a really useful way to break down academic arguments and analyses.
Thanks for this series, Lance! I've just read through the whole series and come away with 4 or 5 articles I want to dive deeper with.
The first article you discuss has a lot of similarities to one I have just done:
https://academyempirica.substack.com/p/re-evaluating-ai-in-education-balancing
Thanks also for further ideas.